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Russ Roberts

2 years

My new book, WILD PROBLEMS comes out August 9--how to face the big life decisions that define us, decisions where so-called rationality either misleads or is irrelevant. Pre-order now:

Wild Problems: A Guide to the Decisions That Define Us

www.amazon.com

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Russ Roberts

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4 years

This brilliant image from @neuterthedebt and adapted by @nntaleb in his Principia Politica paper () captures my view of inequality issues in less than 1K words:

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Russ Roberts

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4 months

Now that Hamas has rejected the Egyptian plan to end the war, I guess the protests for a ceasefire will be directed at Hamas, right?

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4 months

Ninety seconds of economics. Shockingly clear and shockingly subtle.

Milei Explains

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5 months

How import tariffs weaken the economy and your wallet. #milei #argentina #economy #tariffs #imports #entrepreneurs #wages #openeconomy #freetrade

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Russ Roberts

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4 years

UK has about 5K ventilators for 63M people Canada has about 5K for about 37M France has about 5K ventilators for 67M Germany has about 25K for 83M US has about 170K ventilators for about 330M people Still may not be enough. But we have a lot of ventilators in the US.

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I watched two minutes. Yes, there are horrible things happening in Gaza. But this is not journalism. This is controlled by Hamas and censored by Hamas. It's a propaganda piece masquerading as journalism. I stopped listening when she said "the UN estimates that 2/3 of those killed…

Yonah Lieberman 🔥

@YonahLieberman

5 months

I am begging you to watch this six minute @CNN clip from a field hospital in southern Gaza — “a window to hell.” At some point, you hear the sound of an air strike. Later, you see the people who were maimed in that strike brought in. Simply horrifying.

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Russ Roberts

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4 years

No one should ever say that a policy is a good idea because it is "good for the economy" or "efficient." The only thing that matters is human flourishing. Yes, they are related. But the shorthand "the economy" leads to mistaken thinking and stupidity.

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Russ Roberts

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3 months

Yes, what you're paid is less than what you produce. But if the employer contributes nothing you don't need an employer--you can just make widgets yourself and sell them. So the employer contributes something--capital, equipment, insights, or else you'd quit and do it yourself.

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3 months

This should be required teaching across every school in America.

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Russ Roberts

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7 months

The deepest insight for understanding the lenses people use to understand the world comes from @KlingBlog in his superb, concise book, The Three Languages of Politics. Simple idea. Liberals see the world as a struggle between oppressor and oppressed. Conservatives see the 1/

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Russ Roberts

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4 years

My father has passed away. He was an extraordinary man who I already miss. Many thanks for the good wishes, prayers, and thoughts. I will be off the grid for a while. EconTalk episodes lined up for the coming weeks. Enjoy. Talk to you soon.

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Russ Roberts

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6 months

The aftermath of October 7 is a test for the West and for all open societies—societies that purport to tolerate and even embrace diversity of opinion, culture, and political opinion. Societies that nominally believe in freedom of speech and the press. Such societies are now 1/

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6 months

What's heartbreaking is that @piersmorgan thinks this is Israel's fault and not Hamas's. Hamas has plenty of fuel and power. I don't think Piers is a wicked man. But is he not abetting wickedness? Yes, the world is complicated. But this seems simple. What am I missing?

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Russ Roberts

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8 months

Finally met him.

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Russ Roberts

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7 months

Without X, and other social media, (and the despicable desire of evil men to chronicle their savagery and revel in it) we would not fully understand the depth of the depravity that people endured on Saturday. A wake-up call to the world that it cannot unsee.

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Russ Roberts

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3 years

Yesterday was the 15th anniversary of EconTalk. In fall 2006, we went to a weekly release. In 2010, we stopped taking off a week or two at the end of the year. So for roughly 11 years, we have released an episode every Monday. Now at 781 episodes and counting. TY for listening.

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Russ Roberts

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3 years

Knowing a lot about the human body does not make you an expert in risk analysis, tradeoffs, or unintended consequences.

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Russ Roberts

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4 years

The veneer of civilization is thin.

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Russ Roberts

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7 months

It’s a good day to cancel your subscription to @nytimes

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6 years

The economics of price gouging: CUSTOMER: How much is the chicken? BUTCHER: $3 a pound CUSTOMER: But your competitor across the street only charges $1! BUTCHER: So buy it there. CUSTOMER: But they're out of chicken. BUTCHER: When I'm out, I also charge $1.

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3 years

The veneer of civilization is thin. It is partly sustained by a set of norms that people adopt and expect of others. When those norms are violated, the center cannot hold. We are in big trouble.

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Russ Roberts

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5 months

This is not an honest mistake. Nor was it an honest mistake that the PM of Ireland referred to a freed Israeli kidnapped child as "lost and found" over the weekend instead of "kidnapped and released." I don't ask you to be my friend but do you have to be my enemy?

HonestReporting

@HonestReporting

5 months

No, @nytimes , Israa Jaabees wasn't "accused of attempted murder." She was convicted. Because her car didn't passively explode, she detonated a gas canister meant to be part of a suicide bombing. You also forgot to mention that Addameer, whom you cite as a "prisoners’ rights…

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@EconTalker

6 months

Maybe walk out of the UN and not just the room. Morally bankrupt institution.

UN Watch

@UNWatch

6 months

We are now calling on all countries to walk out of the room tomorrow when the Islamic Republic of Iran becomes Chair of the United Nations Human Rights Council Social Forum.

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3 years

Using the word "science" is not the same as using science.

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Russ Roberts

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4 years

Shopper: Your chicken is too expensive. The butcher across the street is only $1/lb. Butcher: So buy from the butcher across the street. Shopper: But he's out of chicken. Butcher: Yeah, when I'm out I charge $1/lb, too.

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Russ Roberts

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When I was young, in graduate school, I believed that people were rational and that rationality was closely tied to self-interest. Surely, knowing what was true and what was not true would make you happier and give you a better life. People, I believed, might make mistakes, 1/

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Russ Roberts

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3 years

Excited and humbled to announce that as of March 1, I will be president of Shalem College in Jerusalem moving there in the summer, Covid permitting. I will stay affiliated with Hoover and continue doing EconTalk. More on Shalem here. It's an amazing place:

The Shalem College Cheat Sheet

All the Questions You (Didn’t Know You) Wanted to Ask About Shalem,Plus a Few More We Thought Were Important

shalem.ac.il

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5 months

Another one. You don’t have to be my friend, @AP but please don’t be my enemy. No need to lie on my behalf. Just tell the truth. Too hard for you, I guess.

HonestReporting

@HonestReporting

5 months

Seriously, @AP ? - These were terrorist offenders, not innocent "minors and women." - This was not a like-for-like "wartime prisoner swap." There's no moral equivalence between Israeli hostages and Palestinian terror offenders.

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Russ Roberts

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4 years

Hey, Bernie--you're a senator. Why don't you just explain how spending money ends homelessness and then you can sponsor a bill to end it. $100b is only 2% of government spending. Surely you can find that spare change somewhere laying around.

Bernie Sanders

@BernieSanders

4 years

Say Bill Gates was actually taxed $100 billion. We could end homelessness and provide safe drinking water to everyone in this country. Bill would still be a multibillionaire. Our message: the billionaire class cannot have it all when so many have so little.

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Russ Roberts

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5 months

Yes, the hostages held by Hamas ate poorly, slept on chairs, didn't get medicine etc. But that's kind of dwarfed by the fact that some of the hostages saw Hamas murder their parents before they were abducted. Can we stop debating how well the hostages were treated in Gaza?

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7 months

A masterpiece from Sam Harris on moral equivalence in the current moment in the Middle East.

Sam Harris | The Sin of Moral Equivalence

Transcript of podcast episode #338

www.samharris.org

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Russ Roberts

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6 years

If you think the economy is a zero-sum game and getting rich makes people poor, you have trouble explaining the last 250 years. That wealth can be created and not just rearranged or come at someone's expense is so basic but may be the single most important insight of economics.

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Russ Roberts

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2 years

This is one of my favorite insights of economics but it may take a bit to get to the punchline. So buckle up. When I first arrived in Israel as an immigrant, a couple of things struck me about the restaurants. First, they seemed pretty expensive. And second, the service 1/

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4 years

Coming to EconTalk tomorrow. @nntaleb on the pandemic.

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5 years

I keep seeing articles and tweets saying that America has been in the grip of neoliberalism and free-market zealotry and it's time for a change. This is one of the greatest sleights of hand in intellectual history...

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Russ Roberts

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5 years

Should I write a book on how empirical evidence is misunderstood and misapplied?

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5 years

I try to stay away from most things Trump but this story is crazy. Evidently I was misled as to what Trump said after Charlottesville. Truth is elusive.

Brit Hume

@brithume

5 years

A CNN commentator calls out his own network, and other outlets, about what Trump actually said after Charlottesville.

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7 months

The most extraordinary unintended consequence of the unspeakable cruelty that unfolded in Israel this week (plus the marches in Manchester, Sydney, NYC, and elsewhere celebrating that cruelty): people are realizing why there needs to be a Jewish state with defensible borders.

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Russ Roberts

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7 months

Israel was attacked today on a holiday, Simchat Torah, that is meant to be the most joyous day of the year. Instead, it has been a day of tragedy--a day of death and terror. The Israel death count is more than double the deaths on 9/11 corrected for population. I do not know 1/

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Russ Roberts

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2 months

Yeah, it's awful, even if something like 12K of the 31K are Hamas fighters. So you've told us what you wouldn't do. What would you do? And the rockets from Vancouver are unpleasant, sure. But they've also raped your daughters, sisters, and wives and kidnapped your children and…

Nicholas Kristof

@NickKristof

2 months

I get this question regularly, and I acknowledge that Israel faced a difficult challenge: It was hard to target Hamas without risking civilians. But my answer is: what I would not do is kill 31,000 people in Vancouver, including 12,500 children, and starve the entire population.

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Russ Roberts

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6 months

There are thoughtful criticisms to make of Israel's actions in the past and in the present with respect to Gaza. These are not thoughtful. No mention of October 7. No mention that Israel left Gaza 18 years ago. Presumes the 40% being children is true w/o evidence. No recognition…

Yashar Ali 🐘

@yashar

6 months

Angelina Jolie, former UN Special Envoy for Refugees, on the IDF strikes yesterday: “This is the deliberate bombing of a trapped population who have nowhere to flee. Gaza has been an open-air prison for nearly two decades and is fast becoming a mass grave. 40% of those killed…

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Russ Roberts

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5 months

There are many horrific things happening in Gaza. It's called war. And it's especially awful when the combatants are not easily identified. Like any decent human being and like most if not all of my neighbors here in Israel, I want to minimize the deaths of innocents in Gaza. I…

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Russ Roberts

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4 years

A month or so ago, I encouraged people to wear masks, with caveats--don't fiddle with it, etc. I was told to stay in my lane--CDC thinks they're worst than useless for the masses. I still think it's a good idea and now I'm betraying liberty. Ignore the tribalism. Wear a mask.

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Russ Roberts

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2 years

When someone has $44B of skin in the game they probably have a better idea of what is good for them than you do. You may not like the plan, but if you think @elonmusk is an idiot because he’s going to charge $8, your first thought should be he knows more about this than you do.

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4 years

I am hoping that we finally getting the results from two weeks+ of social distancing and self-quarantine. This is the first good news in a while. Look at the last few days of the US data. Stay at home. Wear a mask if you must go out. We're maybe making some progress.

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Russ Roberts

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5 months

@EylonALevy Good grief. Thank you for your answer.

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4 years

Part of why the scam works. These aren’t real prices. Worse—a non-trivial part of the list prices being so high is BECAUSE many people have insurance.

Sam Stein

@samstein

4 years

Got the bill for my kids four week stay in the NICU. Let's just say: I'm extremely grateful for the health insurance our family has and far more fearful and frightened for those who don't have these benefits

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Russ Roberts

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6 months

I don't mean to disillusion anyone but there are no journalists in Gaza, people free to interview people on the war, report on what's happening. They would risk or lose their lives. After @nytimes kept a "journalist" who liked Hitler, you really need to lower your expectations.

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Russ Roberts

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5 years

This is dishonest. Not the same people in those groups every year. Your picture and your tweet make it seem otherwise. It's not a zero-sum game and every serious economist knows it. You should too.

Do the Rich Capture All the Gains from Economic Growth?

Adjusted for inflation, the US economy has more than doubled in real terms since 1975.

russroberts.medium.com

David Leonhardt

@DLeonhardt

5 years

The radical rise in inequality over the past four decades costs the typical middle-class family $15,000 *every year*.

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Russ Roberts

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21 days

This ain’t no party. Not even a disco. Huge booms at 2 am or so last night here in Jerusalem as Iron Done was doing its job. Then sirens. Huddled in our stairwell with our neighbors. But all good. Grateful to be alive with my family who were staying with us for Shabbat.

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Russ Roberts

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6 years

One way to summarize these findings with care: the rich didn't get richer, the people who became rich ended up richer than the people who used to be rich. Confused? That's why so many stories about these facts conflate these two ideas without being clear.

Do the Rich Capture All the Gains from Economic Growth?

Adjusted for inflation, the US economy has more than doubled in real terms since 1975.

russroberts.medium.com

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Russ Roberts

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5 years

A great lesson of economics is that if you subsidize housing (cheap loans/mortgages), you actually make housing MORE EXPENSIVE. Unless you also increase supply you are punishing the people who don't get the subsidy. It's the wrong way to make housing "affordable." #econ101

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This is the road to hell. Similar to telling Jews not to go near the Sydney Opera House or the Brooklyn Museum during demonstrations. May as well throw in the towel and concede that you are not willing to fight for what you believe in. Don't light the tree. Cancel Christmas out…

Ashley Zavala

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5 months

BREAKING: With some pro-Palestinian demonstrations planned, there will not be a public Christmas tree lighting ceremony at the California State Capitol this year. Gov. Newsom is expected to do this "virtually," which is a major shift in plans:

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Russ Roberts

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4 years

I am increasingly frustrated by people who blame Milton Friedman, F.A. Hayek, and neoliberalism for the state of the world as if their pitifully ineffective counter-revolution actually triumphed. In fact, that counter-revolution failed almost completely, as I tried to 1/n

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Russ Roberts

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4 years

Bloomberg said he deserved his wealth because he had worked hard. And he was giving it all away to good causes. Nothing about the value or jobs that got created with the profits. No understanding of capitalism. Educational failure all around.

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6 months

An EconTalk update. In the aftermath of the October 7th pogrom here in Israel, I've managed to keep up the weekly release schedule for EconTalk. I am not sure that will continue to be the case but I want you to know that that is my intention. I am busy, but not overwhelmed and1/

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Russ Roberts

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4 years

Let me try to say this a little more clearly. The problem with extended lockdown isn't that the gap between rich and poor is growing. It's that the poor are suffering.

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5 years

Here's a radical idea. Let's cut off subsidies to ALL car companies, regardless of whether they are opening or closing factories.

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Russ Roberts

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7 months

Tired of making 7 figure gifts to colleges that tolerate Jew hatred? I know a small, American-style (old-school) college in Jerusalem helping to form the next generation of leaders for Israel. Write me at russroberts at gmail dot com for more info. I have an in with the prez.

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Something around 10,000 people die in the US every day, many of them tragic. You might read about one or more of those 10,000 and feel sad for a moment. Here, in Israel, every soldier who dies is a tragedy that everyone here feels as if it were family. Unless you live here, it's…

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Russ Roberts

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5 years

All 696 episodes of EconTalk are now available for the podcast app you subscribe to. Try one or all of them. Enjoy.

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5 years

I love it when people tell me that our Kafkaesque health care system, distorted in so many ways by government subsidy and regulation shows that a free market for health care is a disaster.

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4 years

So many smart people I follow on Twitter are confident that they know what will happen next after failing to tell me before that we'd end up where we are now. Come on folks. Show some humility.

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I am deeply moved by all the people who have reached out to me worried about my safety, offering prayers, thoughts, and help. Thank you. Some have added something like: "Wow. You couldn't have expected this when you moved to Israel. Sorry you have to deal with this." Don't 1/

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4 years

I am proud to be in a Taleb sandwich.

Skyla

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4 years

What I spend my money from my first paycheck on!! @EconTalker @nntaleb

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4 years

Saving lives vs. saving "the economy" is not the tradeoff. The tradeoff is saving lives vs. ruining lives via perpetual lockdown. The costs of the lockdown are hidden from twitter. The people whose lives are being ruined aren't here.

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5 months

I suspect many people do not realize that there are Arabs living in Israel as citizens (Muslim and Christian) with full rights, in contrast to Palestinians in Gaza and the West Bank.

Bassem Eid

@realbassemeid

5 months

Arab-Israelis are feeling more Israeli than ever after the Hamas massacre on October 7. When asked to choose which component of their identity was most important to them, 33.2% said Israeli — up from 21% in May 2023 and the most chosen answer for the first time ever. Arab…

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I don't think the key aspect of capitalism is "selfishness." The key aspect is "voluntary." That allows for altruism/love/selfishness and cultural forces to influence transactions and how we think about them.

Venkatesh Rao ☀️

@vgr

5 years

After napping on it, I have a theory of what ails capitalism: it is not Darwinian enough. The “selfish” motive in Adam Smith corresponds to personal fitness rather than inclusive fitness. Taxation is a crude and insufficiently precise mechanism to add inclusive fitness back in.

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If the rich are in charge in America, I wonder why the top 1% pays about 40% of the federal income tax collected. Cronyism is evil and there is much to be done. But let's have some perspective on how "rigged" the system is, please.

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6 years

Milton Friedman used to say that asking economists for investment advice was like asking a physicist to fix a broken toilet. Not their field, though sort of related.

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4 years

I've always liked Trader Joe's. I like them more now:

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6 months

The defenders of Hamas keep using the word “genocide” as a description of Israel’s actions toward Gaza. I do not think that word means what they think it means. I have no problem with criticizing Israel. Just don’t lie, please.

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7 months

An example of the wake-up call the world is receiving. Don't look away. Remember this.

Gabriel Noronha

@GLNoronha

7 months

Video: A crowd at the steps of the Sydney Opera House chants "gas the Jews" and "f*ck the Jews" on October 9.

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Now that @JeffBezos is going to no longer be CEO, I hope he finds time to come on EconTalk. I'm sure we'd have a good conversation.

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5 months

Moral bankruptcy

Shai Davidai

@ShaiDavidai

5 months

IT'S TIME FOR ALL OF US TO RAISE OUR VOICES! The School of Social Work at @Colubmia University CANNOT allow a "teach-in" that sees rape as a "counteroffensive" and calls murder and kidnap of children "revolutionary violence"! PLEASE RETWEET THIS WITH YOUR OWN CALL TO @Columbia

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When this war is over, there's going to be some kind of change in the Jewishness of this country as my colleague @DanielGordis has suggested. People are wearing tzitzit and refilling who didn't before. Ultraorthodox Jews who weren't involved in the daily life of the country 1/

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4 years

Fred brings it. He is the rare capitalist willing to lift his head.

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6 years

Milton Friedman would have been 106 today. Here is one of his two EconTalk episodes. On capitalism and freedom: Wish he were still here. Wish I could interview him again. I'd talk less. Twelve years ago. I like to think I've gotten better...

Milton Friedman on Capitalism and Freedom - Econlib

Russ Roberts talks to Milton Friedman about the radical ideas he put forward almost 50 years ago in Capitalism and Freedom. Listen to the most influential economist of the past 50 years discuss the...

www.econtalk.org

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The reason Imposter Syndrome is so common is that we are all imposters. We all have holes in our knowledge, things that someone else might expect us to understand. We fear being discovered. Better to embrace humility.

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@BilldeBlasio This is a sign of where we are. First, there is the pandering to envy. Second, there is an implication that redistribution is a free lunch. These views pit people against each other and ignore ways to rise in this world that benefit others.

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4 years

The first part of my mourning for my father, the shiva period, is over. I will slowly be returning to semi-normal daily life and to work, over the next weeks and months. I want to thank everyone here for their kind words in my time of sorrow.

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When I say that the sky isn't paisley despite what some people are claiming and you say, yeah, but some ties are paisley, you're part of the reason Twitter is annoying and I'm not going to respond, other than sending you to this pinned tweet.

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4 years

I have been giving him and others the benefit of the doubt. But he admits in the interview that he lied about the effectiveness of masks. This is a tragedy on so many dimensions. Probably resulted in unnecessary deaths. Further degraded credibility of institutions. So depressing.

Gizmodo

@Gizmodo

4 years

Dr. Fauci made the coronavirus pandemic worse by lying about masks

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4 years

S and P up about 7% today so far, just as I predicted. I told my son it would either go up or down today in the aftermath of yesterday's big drop. Feeling vindicated!

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4 years

You could call this naive. Or something else. But whatever you call it, it’s a horrible example of what is wrong with political discourse today. My side is a group of angels. The other side is a group of devils.

Paul Krugman

@paulkrugman

4 years

America under a Sanders presidency would still be America, both because Sanders is an infinitely better man than Trump and because the Democratic Party wouldn't enable abuse of power the way Republicans have 2/

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Walter Williams has died. He was a wonderful teacher and unflinchingly honest. I respected him greatly. He was an early guest on EconTalk in what was the 22nd episode...

Walter Williams on Life, Liberty and Economics - Econlib

Professor, Radio Host, and Syndicated Columnist Walter Williams of George Mason University talks with EconTalk’s Russ Roberts about his early days as an economist, his controversial view of the Civil...

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time. Hamas has unwillingly created a few more thoughtful people around the world. 27/27

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Note to all the interesting people with skills and knowledge who I follow here. I’m just not that interested in your hatred, disdain, or dislike for particular politicians. Not what I came for. I mean congrats for having the right views and all that but teach me something, please

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There is a lot of talk about how after this virus passes, whenever that may be, we have to "build a better world." This was a theme in a number of mock commencement addresses that the @WSJ collected in yesterday's edition. There is a temptation to dismiss this as an 1/n

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I am agnostic on whether CEOs are overpaid but to imply that inequality impoverishes workers is not true. The conflation of inequality with suffering is simply not logical.

Brent Welder

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6 years

Every time this number ticks up, millions of workers are impoverished. What will you do to help reverse this epidemic? #FightFor15

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It's a terrible idea to negotiate with Hamas for the return of the hostages. The incentives are very ugly. This deal rewards unspeakable cruelty and creates rewards for doing it again. BUT. As much as my head knows this, my heart rejoices that dozens of people are coming home 1/

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It makes me sad that how you feel about wearing a mask in a pandemic has become a way to express our tribalism. But evidently (given how people have reacted to tweet this morning), criticizing or defending Fauci is the same thing. He's either a saint or devil. Absurd.

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Lots of variety coming to EconTalk: Williams on blockchain gaming, Loury on race, Taleb on the pandemic, Kay and King on radical uncertainty, Cohen on the hot hand, Munger on education, Zimring on when police kill.

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That’s because they don’t understand emergent order. In their minds, every bit of misery and despair is designed, intentional, planned. And anything good must be planned and done intentionally as well.

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Easy answer to her question: you're going to use that extra money to pay your newly increased rent as the tax credit pushes up demand.

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6 years

Under the Rent Relief Act, anyone who spends more than 30% of their income on rent would be eligible for a federal tax credit. What would you do with that extra money in your pocket?

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The biggest conceptual flaw of economics is that it tries to leap the chasm from our consumption of stuff (supply and demand, utility functions) to our ability to flourish and lead a meaningful life. The two aren't that related. Should reduce the importance of economists. Hasn't.

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Our new EconTalk logo and tag line.

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Wow. A masterful defense of Amazon and America by Bezos.

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I would love to have @jk_rowling on EconTalk. Anyone know her well enough to make the case?

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I think we need to get him on EconTalk.

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4 years

1. Simply pointing out whether someone is left or right wing isn't winning the argument. 2. If a joke is good enough, it can be enjoyed by anyone. 3. It's not all about you. 4. Just because you're offended, doesn't mean you're right.

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My take on the increasingly angry and tribal conversations we're having about seemingly everything:

The World Turned Upside Down (and what to do about it)

The current state of the country and the current state of political and intellectual conversation depresses me in a way that it never has…

russroberts.medium.com

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I love twitter, warts and all. Amazing content. Easily blocked haters. The ads are basically non-existent. So what's wrong with @elonmusk charging those of us who value it? And if you don't want to pay $8/mo, don't! Free country. Hoping Elon will come to EconTalk to discuss.

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